14 FROM THE COUNTRY OF THE CICONES, 
Religion ; and the Turks maintain, that in this 
act of devotion they ought to be so intent and 
fixed, that no possible event can have power to 
divert their attention ; not even the command 
of the Sultan himself, nor any alarm of fire or 
other imminent peril. How beautiful is the 
description given by Bushequius^ of the whole 
Turkish army engaged in one solemn act of 
public devotion ^ Yet Rycaut affirmed, that of 
all the nations and religions he had known, the 
Turks were the most hypocritical. " These 
(1) The real name of this author was Auger Ghislin Boeshee: be 
was son of Giles Ghislin, Lord of Boesbec, a small village in Flanders,- 
and is better known under the name of Augerius Ghislemu 
Bushequius. lie was employed as ambassador by Ferdinand the First 
to Solymnn the Second. He sent inscriptions to Scoliger, JJpsius, 
andGruterus, and added more than one hundred Greek manuscripts to 
the Imperial Library. 
(2) "Video in ea planitie ina°;nam conglobatam turbinatoraia 
capitum multitudinem, summo silentio verba praeeuntis sacerdotis 
excipientiuni. Singulisuis quique locis ordines constiterant ; et cum 
in loco aperto et patente versarentur, ipsi corporum suorum serie, 
tanquam septa sive parietes, sibi construere videbantur ; honoratiure 
quoque ordine, ei loco, ubi princeps constiterat, propinquiore. Om. 
Ilium erat vestitus eximius nitor. Capitum tegmina de candore cum 
aivibus certabant, grata diversorum colorum varictas muita cum 
voluptate in oculos incurrebat. Sic ver6 stabant immobiles, ut in illo 
solo defixi aut ibidem succrevisse viderentur. Nulla tussis, nullos 
SCREATUS, NULLA VOX, NOLLUS CIRCUMACTI CAPITIS AUT RESPICIEVTI* 
MOTHS. Sacerdote Mahumetis nomen pronuntiante, pariter una 
omnes capita ad genua usque summittebanf. ruM nomen Dci pro- 
FARETUR, IN FACIEM VENERABUNDI PROCIDEBANT, ET TERRAM DF.OSCt'LA- 
BANTUR." Bttsbequii Epist. 3. i).\6'2, LoTid. 1660. 
